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SEE-Toolkit

The SEE Toolkit, is based on a six-stage process , which can be used as a guideline, that will structure and plan environmental training in Outdoor Sports.It also contains many tried and tested educational activities, that will implement education for sustainable development in Outdoor Sports courses. It is a useful tool for training providers hiking guides, canoe teachers or MTB instructors and professionals from all Outdoor Sports.

Check out our handy guide and video for a quick overview of the SEE toolkit 

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Overview of the process

The toolkit provides a 6 stages process on how to implement education for sustainable development and environmental training into Outdoor Sport courses.

Each stage will help you think through the need for better environmental training in outdoor sports and plan and deliver activities that will raise awareness, provide impact and generate transformation in the way Outdoor Sports interacts with Nature.

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The SEE project also provides a toolbox of motivating and fun activities for environmental training and education for sustainable development

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The Stages of the Toolkit

  • 1
    Disruption and awareness
  • 2
    Impact analysis
  • 3
    Selection and creation
  • 4
    Integration
  • 5
    Action
  • 6
    Transformation

Explore and take advantages from the toolkit

Disruption and awareness

Stage 1Disruption and awareness


Raising awareness on the importance of environmental training and education for sustainable development, and developing a motivation base for learning.

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Impact analysis

Stage 2Impact analysis


Analysing impacts and defining key topics based on relevance and interest.

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Selection and creation

Stage 3Selection and creation


Choosing motivating activities to address the most relevant impacts. Discover over 70 activities on different topics to be found here!

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Integration

Stage 4Integration


Integrating the activities into the curriculum or courses and defining learning outcomes. Deciding who can provide the education and what competencies and capacities need to be created within the team of educators.

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Action

Stage 5Action


Getting from knowing to doing and developing your own project for positive change.

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Transformation

Stage 6Transformation


Transforming individuals and groups towards a more sustainable and responsible behaviour, through providing a sustainable learning environment that supports the transformation.

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Explore the activities by related topics!

Game of Values

Interactive game to reflect on the values of our outdoor sport experience and the importance of nature or social components.

Game of Values

  Awareness, values and responsibility
My Special Place

An activity that blends an ice-breaker related to a sense of place and environmental stewardship.

My Special Place

  Awareness, values and responsibility   Dealing with impacts   Place attachment, responsibility and care
The power of why

A questions-based exercise which pushes participants to reconsider their instincts and sharpen their listening skills, while learning the value of asking the right questions at the right time.

The power of why

  Awareness, values and responsibility
Speed dating with SDGs

Getting to know the sustainable development goals and thinking about our personal and working environmental impact.

Speed dating with SDGs

  Impact analysis   Sustainability   Taking action
2 minutes silence with birds

Easy to integrate listening exercise that shows the impact of a loud group on birds.

2 minutes silence with birds

  Fauna
Balance and space

It’s not only about keeping your balance on the bike, it’s also about balancing the amount of space some fauna need to prevent disturbance.

Balance and space

  MTB specific topics
Be a ninja

Trail etiquette for young mountain bikers in easy language, appealing to the imagination of kids.

Be a ninja

  MTB specific topics
Hunter ball

Cooperative hunting game to illustrate the effects of a non-sustainable use of resources.

Hunter ball

  Sustainability
Hunter and hunted

Getting people to feel the movement & hear the sound of nature whilst thinking about noise disturbance.

Hunter and hunted

  Fauna
Make your own goodluck

Role-play or scenario game that illustrates the importance of preparing ahead and demonstrates the effects of poor planning on the quality of a trip in a fun way.

Make your own goodluck

  Guiding and preparing ahead
Picture interpretation

Short exercise that makes you think about different users´ perspectives and different visions for one place.

Picture interpretation

  Fauna   Social conflicts and community engagement
Footprint calculation

Calculation of our personal ecological footprint using an online calculator.

Footprint calculation

  Carbon emissions   Sustainability
Needs and wants

Getting people to really think about commercialism and consumerism.

Needs and wants

  Consumerism   Equipment and consumption
Outdoor buffet

Learning by eating – Natural activity to learn about local, vegetarian and organic food without single use packaging.

Outdoor buffet

  Food and drinks   Littering
Outdoor principles memory

Memory game to discover outdoor sport principles and ethics.

Outdoor principles memory

  Principles, ethics and regulations
Overcrowding dilemma

Role-playing game with different groups of stakeholders that highlights the need for empathy to reach agreements for the common good.

Overcrowding dilemma

  Destination development, social media and communication
Plan your trip

Theoretical exercise to train future instructors on ecological planning, mobility and creating attractive outdoor sport offers.

Plan your trip

  Carbon emissions   Mobility and travel
Travel stories

Making the journey to the adventure part of the adventure.

Travel stories

  Mobility and travel
Carbon impact sheet

A very clear way to showcase our carbon footprint of travel and accommodation on courses, meetings or events.

Carbon impact sheet

  Carbon emissions   Mobility and travel
Writing a letter

Active community engagement for sustainable development by writing a letter to people in charge.

Writing a letter

  Social conflicts and community engagement   Taking action
World game

Visual approach to make you think about the justice in distribution of income, emissions and use of resources on the planet.

World game

  Justice
Which habitat

A simple game to associate species and specific habitats during a climbing season.

Which habitat

  Climbing specific activities   Fauna   Flora
Where is important to me

Building place attachment and setting the stage for environmental discussions.

Where is important to me

  Place attachment, responsibility and care
Trash Bandit Bingo

Teaching kids that littering isn´t cool and its negative impacts on our environment in a fun way.

Trash Bandit Bingo

  Littering   MTB specific topics
The trip in your bag

The activity gives participants a better understanding of what to bring on a day trip or course, as well as a better general understanding of the principles of preparing ahead in regards to safety, nature experience and leaving no trace.

The trip in your bag

  Guiding and preparing ahead
Sustainability bingo

Small game to get to know each other and also to discover the broad concept of sustainability.

Sustainability bingo

  Sustainability
Story of the lynx

Good group cooperation is needed to guide the Lynx on its journey to its habitat and avoid dangers on the way.

Story of the lynx

  Fauna
Black Friday game

Fun game to think about how we justify our consumerism in outdoor sports.

Black Friday game

  Consumerism   Equipment and consumption
Skip the skid

Learn how to properly brake on a mountain bike by using both brakes simultaneously to slow down in a controlled way in order to minimise the impact on the trail.

Skip the skid

  Erosion   MTB specific topics
Ship wreck on the beach

Beach clean-up with the story of a sunken ship that helps water sport practitioners to understand impacts of waste and plastics in the sea (or river).

Ship wreck on the beach

  Littering
Plastic quiz

Hands-on activity to learn about (micro) plastics in every days outdoor sports products and reflect on the problems of unsustainable products, materials and usage.

Plastic quiz

  Equipment and consumption
Dunes at night

A discovery journey at night to explore the dune habitat and its vulnerable inhabitants that are easily overseen when practicing marine sports.

Dunes at night

  Fauna   Flora
Dilemmas in different habitats

Activity that blends a quick practical lesson with a specific scenario driven debate on best environmental practices in various outdoor sports and environments.

Dilemmas in different habitats

  Dealing with impacts   Guiding and preparing ahead
Difficult dilemmas

Role-play activity to encourage decision-making and debate in challenging outdoor ethical situations.

Difficult dilemmas

  Dealing with impacts   Guiding and preparing ahead
Wise with marine animals

Activities to understand the life cycles and impacts of our activities on seals, cetaceans, basking sharks and seabirds.

Wise with marine animals

  Fauna
Eco briefing

A short briefing at the start of an activity should not only include safety instructions but also what needs to be considered to minimize impacts, boosting appreciation for the landscape and promote nature preservation while practicing outdoor sports.

Eco briefing

  Flora
Euroilse community engagement game

Imaginative and adaptive scenario-based game designed to inspire quick and creative thinking in an unpredictable and ever-changing environment.

Euroilse community engagement game

  Social conflicts and community engagement
Feeding time photoshoot

Personal feelings are the starting point to get people to really think if they potentially are having a negative effect on animal’s behaviour, consider ways to negate this and develop empathy with other living creatures.

Feeding time photoshoot

  Fauna
Fleeing distance

Easy to integrate activity to visualize the typical fleeing distances of animals.

Fleeing distance

  Fauna
Food web - Marine ecosystems

Interactive game to learn more about the variety of marine ecosystems and how interconnected and vulnerable they are.

Food web - Marine ecosystems

  Fauna
Eco grid

Tool for the observation of a natural site / area and analysing its potential for environmental education.

Eco grid

  Guiding and preparing ahead
Go and find

Shifting the attention and awareness from being social to nature by simple searching tasks.

Go and find

  Awareness, values and responsibility   Flora   Place attachment, responsibility and care
Good idea bad idea

Identifying and discussing both good and bad practices.

Good idea bad idea

  Awareness, values and responsibility   Dealing with impacts   Place attachment, responsibility and care
Goose game

A fun game that combines climbing techniques training and discovering the biodiversity of rocks during an autonomous climbing session.

Goose game

  Climbing specific activities   Fauna   Flora
Impact grid

Analysis and assessment of possible impacts and issues in outdoor sport activities using a grid as an analysis tool.

Impact grid

  Impact analysis
Impact scenario

Participants-centred activity to identify positive and negative impacts of our outdoor sports practice.

Impact scenario

  Impact analysis
Day walk with LNT principles

A first look at how we plan an outdoor session responsibly including a hands-on introduction to the principles of Leave No Trace.

Day walk with LNT principles

  Guiding and preparing ahead   Principles, ethics and regulations
Clean up row

Improving the environment by removing all litter after a rest or bivouac and creating a feeling of responsibility and care.

Clean up row

  Littering
Hunting strategies with birds and moths

Interactive game for kids (and youthful minded adults) to learn about the communication of bats.

Hunting strategies with birds and moths

  Fauna
Journey of a hardshell jacket

Thinking about the impact of consumption in outdoor sports by following the journey of clothes around the world.

Journey of a hardshell jacket

  Equipment and consumption
Outdoor sport consulting board

Interactive activity to discuss regulations and reflect on the problems of unsustainable behaviour promotion be it by professionals or private social media.

Outdoor sport consulting board

  Destination development, social media and communication   MTB specific topics   Principles, ethics and regulations
Who is eating who

A simple game to understand the food chain´s principles in a rocky habitat.

Who is eating who

  Climbing specific activities   Fauna
Break down game

If you throw something away, how long will it stay? - A visual and hands-on activity to explain how long it takes for different materials to decompose.

Break down game

  Littering
Disturbance game

Eye-opening activity that will help your participants gain a deeper understanding - from a unique perspective - of the effects humans have on the environment, especially wild fauna.

Disturbance game

  Fauna